Annual treat of grapefruit

[SB2015]

I have the table laid for breakfast, and my annual treat of half a grapefruit ready to prepare in the morning. I leave out the statin tonight, have grapefruit tomorrow (we always had this at home and I really missed it. When I told my GP he suggested this strategy). I know it will be a bit spikes, but I shall try using timing to help, and after that it is no carb, just scrambled egg with smoked salmon. Mmmmmmmm.

 

[Ditto]

Grapefruit always reminds me of the time I chugalugged two full glasses of grapefruit juice and thought I was having a heart attack. They hadn't told me I shouldn't have it whilst on betablockers. Numpties.

Enjoy.

 

[mikeyB]

It's in the data sheets that come with the tablets. You should try reading them sometime.

 

[KookyCat]

Enjoy the Grapefruit SB and all the other goodies

 

[graj0]

I have the table laid for breakfast, and my annual treat of half a grapefruit ready to prepare in the morning. I leave out the statin tonight, have grapefruit tomorrow (we always had this at home and I really missed it. When I told my GP he suggested this strategy). I know it will be a bit spikes, but I shall try using timing to help, and after that it is no carb, just scrambled egg with smoked salmon. Mmmmmmmm.

I had always wondered why grapefruit was such a problem, not that I take them any more. It would seem that grapefruit increases the effectiveness of statins and therefore the side effects. Different doctors seem to give different advice and it would seem that grapefruit eaten several after taken a statin won't make any difference because the statin will have been absorbed and processed by the liver.

Shame they can't calibrate how much grapefruit is needed to increase the effectiveness of a quantity of statin. Maybe cut down on how much statin one takes.

I'm confused about statins anyway. I lowered my carbs and total cholesterol dropped to 3, I stopped taking statins (Muscle pain, brain fog) and as expected my total cholesterol went up to 5.4. This last year I have increase fats and total cholesterol is now 4. I wish I could work it out.

Anyway, enough of my mutterings. I hope you enjoy your grapefruit, maybe make it more of a regular treat. Merry Christmas

 

[Northerner]

Is this the half left over from last year, then? 😱 Enjoy!

 

[Ditto]

It's in the data sheets that come with the tablets. You should try reading them sometime.

I did, that's the thing. I didn't see anything about not having grapefruit! I did see that the tablets would eventually cause heart failure, now that I should have taken note of. Why give me tablets to ease chest pain which might have been just panic attacks anyway? They've given me what I was afraid of basically. I'm the numpty. 😉

 

[mikeyB]

Grapefruit contains chemicals that interfere with the effectiveness, up or down, for a whole slew of drugs. Have a look on Dr Internet. Wikipedia has a fairly comprehensive list. Viagra is on it for any ED sufferers getting odd effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit–drug_interactions

 

[Northerner]

Grapefruit always reminds me of the time I chugalugged two full glasses of grapefruit juice and thought I was having a heart attack. They hadn't told me I shouldn't have it whilst on betablockers. Numpties.

Enjoy.

I hated being on betablockers, couldn't wait to get off them I think that, when you get put on a new medication it's a good idea to ask the pharmacist about any possible problems, especially any interactions with anything else you might be taking as those don't appear on the leaflets 🙂

 

[Ditto]

When I first went on them t'internet hadn't been invented. I hate taking all medications now, they all have rotten side effects.

 

[mikeyB]

I don't suffer from many side effects, but the latest additions to my diet of pills, Venlafaxine and Tramadol, both doing their jobs nicely, but they've also done a job on my naughty bits, and with my birthday coming up that's a no no for another bloody year. And the dreams with the Tramadol are real doozies.

 

[trophywench]

If you dream it must mean you sleep - ergo they are working. Can't have everything Mike! LOL

As it happens the MKII husband isn't too enthused by grapefruit so I haven't had it for yonks and resigned myself to this finally when I went on to statins, and didn't bother reinstating the occasional grapefruit when I stopped taking them. Just as well really since I'm also on Levothyroxine and Losartan, isn't it?

 

[Rosiecarmel]

I love grapefruit but I can't have it either due to non -D medications.

 

[SB2015]

I talked to GP and he thought for those that I take one day without would not be a problem, so I was told to leave out Statin the previous day and then enjoy my grapefruit on Christmas Morning. Which I did

I would not have done this without advice from GP.